Based on key financial metrics such as the price-to-sales ratio, shareholder yield and the price-earnings ratio, the following 7 stocks made the list for top value stocks in the Metals & Mining - Iron & Steel industry. Those looking for value stocks to add to their portfolio may want to use this list as a starting point for further investment research.

Why Focus on Undervalued Metals & Mining - Iron & Steel Stocks?

Value investors seek to buy stocks at a discount to their intrinsic value. Long-term returns show that such strategies are advantageous. Value stocks, as a group, tend to outperform growth stocks over extended periods of time. Typically, value investors perform financial analysis of numerous metrics, don’t follow the herd and are long-term investors.

AAII’s A+ Investor Value Grade is derived from a stock’s Value Score. The Value Score is the percentile rank of the average of the percentile ranks of the price-to-sales ratio, price-earnings ratio, enterprise-value-to-EBITDA (EV/EBITDA) ratio, shareholder yield, price-to-book-value ratio and price-to-free-cash-flow ratio. The score is variable, meaning it can consider all six ratios or, should any of the six ratios not be valid, the remaining ratios that are valid. To be assigned a Value Score, stocks must have a valid (non-null) ratio and corresponding ranking for at least two of the six valuation ratios.

What Goes Into AAII’s Value Grade?

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AAII’s proprietary stock grades come with A+ Investor. These offer intuitive A–F grades for more than just value. It is possible for a stock to appear cheap based on one valuation metric but appear expensive on another. It is also possible for one valuation ratio to be associated with outperforming stocks during certain periods of time but not others. Some stocks may even have null values for certain metrics like the price-earnings ratio or the price-to-book ratio but not others. An example of this would be a company with losses instead of profits or a negative book value because of heavy borrowing. Negative earnings or book value result in non-meaningful ratios that are left blank or null.

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7 Undervalued Metals & Mining - Iron & Steel Stocks

Of course, there are countless value stocks that are worth mentioning, but this is a concise list of the top 7 undervalued stocks in the Metals & Mining - Iron & Steel industry for Wednesday, September 04, 2024. Let’s take a closer look at their individual scores to see how they measure up against each other and the Metals & Mining - Iron & Steel industry median.

The Value Grade is assigned based on how each stock’s composite valuation compares to all other stocks.

The process for assigning grades starts with each variable for a given stock. The percentile rankings for all valid ratios that a stock has are calculated. So, for instance, a stock could have a price-to-book ranking in the 43rd percentile, a price-earnings ranking in the 67th percentile, a price-to-sales ranking in the 23rd percentile, etc. Then, those rankings are averaged for each stock. (A minimum of two valid variables are required, though all six will be used if available.)

Once the average of the individual variables is calculated, that average is ranked against all stocks. Put another way, each stock’s composite valuation is compared to all other stocks. These ranks are then sorted into quintiles from the cheapest 20% (a grade of A) to the most expensive 20% (a grade of F).

As always, we recommend that you conduct proper due diligence and research before investing in any security. We also suggest that investors utilize numerous grades, not just value, when it comes to deciding whether a company is a good fit for their allocation needs.

Algoma Steel Group Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Algoma Steel Group Inc. (Algoma) is a Canada-based integrated producer of hot and cold rolled steel products including sheet and plate. The Company delivers customer-driven product solutions to applications in the automotive, construction, energy, defense, and manufacturing sectors. The Company is a key supplier of steel products to customers in North America and is the only producer of discrete plate products in Canada. Its plate products include AR225, Heat Treated Plate, AlgoLaser, AlgoGrip and The Heavies. Its plate products include Hot Rolled Sheet - DSPC, Hot Rolled Sheet - 106'' Mill, AR200, Cold Rolled and Floor Plate. The Company has a raw steel production capacity of an estimated 2.8 million tons per year. Its Direct Strip Production Complex is a thin slab caster coupled with direct hot rolling in North America. In addition, its heat-treated plate facility provides a full range of heat-treated products for abrasion resistant, ballistic and other specialty plate applications.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Algoma Steel Group Inc has a Value Score of 88, which is considered to be undervalued.

When you look at Algoma Steel Group Inc’s price-to-sales ratio at 0.56 compared to the industry median at 0.52, this company has a higher price relative to revenue compared to its peers. This could make Algoma Steel Group Inc’s stock less attractive for value investors.

Now, let’s assess Algoma Steel Group Inc’s EV/EBITDA ratio, also known as enterprise multiple. At 9.9, when compared to the industry median of 6.6, the company may be considered overvalued in relation to its peers. Value investors could use the enterprise multiple to identify stocks that are considered overvalued or undervalued relative to their industry.

Shareholder yield is the sum of a stock’s dividend yield (paid over previous 12 months minus special dividends) and the percentage of net share buybacks over the previous 12 months. Algoma Steel Group Inc’s shareholder yield is higher than its industry median ratio of 2.82%. Value investors may look for an attractive shareholder yield because it can be a powerful tool for identifying if the company has a good management team.

As one of the most common value metrics, the price-to-book ratio evaluates a company’s current market price relative to its book value. Algoma Steel Group Inc’s price-to-book ratio is lower than its industry median ratio of 1.11. This could make Algoma Steel Group Inc more attractive to investors looking for a new addition to their portfolio.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is a flat-rolled steel producer and engaged in manufacturing iron ore pellets in North America. The Company is vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. It offers advanced high-strength steels (AHSS), hot-dipped galvanized, aluminized, galvalume, electrogalvanized, galvanneal, hot-rolled coil (HRC), cold-rolled coil, plate, tinplate, grain oriented electrical steel (GOES), non-oriented electrical steel (NOES), stainless steels, tool and die, stamped components, rail, slab and cast ingot. Its tubular components and tooling and stamping segments provide carbon and stainless steel tubing products, advanced-engineered solutions, tool design and build, hot and cold stamped steel components and complex assemblies. It serves various markets, such as automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, steel producers, and distributors and converters.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc has a Value Score of 84, which is considered to be undervalued.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 152.9 compared to the industry median at 10.5. This means that it has a higher price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Cleveland-Cliffs Inc less attractive for value investors.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Cleveland-Cliffs Inc less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.11.

You can read more about Cleveland-Cliffs Inc’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Huadi International Group Co., Ltd.’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Huadi International Group Co Ltd is a holding company primarily engaged in the new products development, manufacturing, marketing and sales of stainless steel seamless pipes, tubes and stainless steel bar. Its core product is HuaGang stainless steel seamless pipe. The Company is offering a comprehensive range of products with a specialty in high-end products such as 347H corrosion and acid-resistant stainless steel seamless pipes, S32205 duplex stainless steel plates and automobile steel plates, bright steel pipes as well as precision tubes. The products are used in the oil & gas transmission, chemistry engineering, food processing, medical devices, aeronautics and astronautics, boiler, irrigation works construction, electricity, automobile, naval architecture, paper mill and mechanical industries. The Company conducts its businesses within the China market and to overseas markets such as United States, Mexico, Thailand, Australia, Argentina, India, the Philippines and Canada.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Huadi International Group Co., Ltd. has a Value Score of 74, which is considered to be undervalued.

Huadi International Group Co., Ltd.’s price-earnings ratio is 8.9 compared to the industry median at 10.5. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Huadi International Group Co., Ltd. more attractive for value investors.

Huadi International Group Co., Ltd.’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Huadi International Group Co., Ltd. less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.11.

You can read more about Huadi International Group Co., Ltd.’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Reliance Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Reliance, Inc. is a diversified metal solutions provider and has a metals service center company in North America. The Company provides value-added metals processing services and distributes a full line of over 100,000 metal products, including alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, specialty carbon and alloy steel plate and round bar and specialty steel products. It serves various industries, such as general manufacturing, non-residential construction (including infrastructure), transportation (rail, truck trailer and shipbuilding), aerospace (commercial, military, defense, and space, and heavy industry, energy (oil and natural gas). It also services the auto industry, primarily through its toll processing operation. It has a network of approximately 315 locations in 40 states and in 12 foreign countries, including Belgium, Canada, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Reliance Inc has a Value Score of 62, which is considered to be undervalued.

Reliance Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 13.9 compared to the industry median at 10.5. This means that it has a higher price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Reliance Inc less attractive for value investors.

Reliance Inc’s price-to-book ratio is lower than its peers. This could make Reliance Inc more attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.11.

You can read more about Reliance Inc’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Steel Dynamics Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Steel Dynamics, Inc. is a steel producer and metal recycler in the North America. Its segments include Steel Operations, Metals Recycling Operations, Steel Fabrication Operations and Aluminum Operations. Steel Operations segment consists primarily of steelmaking and various coating operations. Metals Recycling operations segment include both ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal processing, transportation, marketing, brokerage and scrap management services, strategically located primarily in close proximity to its steel mills and other end-user scrap consumers, across the United States, and Central and Northern Mexico. Steel fabrication operations segment include seven new millennium building systems plants that primarily serve the nonresidential construction industry across the United States. The Aluminum Operations includes the recycled aluminum flat rolled products mill being constructed in Columbus, Mississippi, and two satellite recycled aluminum slab centers in Arizona and Mexico.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Steel Dynamics Inc has a Value Score of 75, which is considered to be undervalued.

Steel Dynamics Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 7.8 compared to the industry median at 10.5. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Steel Dynamics Inc more attractive for value investors.

Steel Dynamics Inc’s price-to-book ratio is lower than its peers. This could make Steel Dynamics Inc more attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.11.

You can read more about Steel Dynamics Inc’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

United States Steel Corporation’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

United States Steel Corporation is a steel producer. The Company operates through four segments: North American Flat-Rolled (Flat-Rolled), Mini Mill, U. S. Steel Europe (USSE) and Tubular Products (Tubular). The Flat-Rolled segment is involved in the production of slabs, strip mill plates, sheets and tin mill products, as well as all iron ore, direct reduced grade pellets, pig iron, and coke production facilities in the United States. The Mini Mill segment produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled, coated sheets and electrical steels. The USSE segment produces and sells slabs, strip mill plate, sheet, tin mill products and spiral welded pipe. The Tubular segment produces and sells rounds, seamless and electric resistance welded (ERW) steel casing and tubing (OCTG), and standard and line pipe and mechanical tubing. It serves the automotive, construction, appliance, energy, container, and packaging industries with high value-added steel products such as its XG3 advanced high-strength steel.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

United States Steel Corporation has a Value Score of 85, which is considered to be undervalued.

United States Steel Corporation’s price-earnings ratio is 16.0 compared to the industry median at 10.5. This means that it has a higher price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes United States Steel Corporation less attractive for value investors.

United States Steel Corporation’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make United States Steel Corporation less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.11.

You can read more about United States Steel Corporation’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Olympic Steel Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Olympic Steel, Inc. is a metals service center company. The Company provides metals processing and distribution services to a range of customers. It operates through three segments: specialty metals flat products, carbon flat products, and tubular and pipe products. Specialty metals flat products segment is engaged in the direct sale and distribution of processed aluminum and stainless flat-rolled sheet and coil products, flat bar products, prime tin mill products and fabricated parts. Carbon flat products segment is engaged in the direct sale and distribution of large volumes of processed carbon and coated flat-rolled sheet, coil and plate products and fabricated parts. Tubular and pipe products segment distributes metal tubing, pipe, bar, valves and fittings and fabrication of parts supplied to various industrial markets. This segment also offers a range of value-added fabrication services, including tube laser cutting, tube bending, robotic welding, flat laser burning and others.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Olympic Steel Inc has a Value Score of 93, which is considered to be undervalued.

Olympic Steel Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 11.9 compared to the industry median at 10.5. This means that it has a higher price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Olympic Steel Inc less attractive for value investors.

Olympic Steel Inc’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Olympic Steel Inc less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.11.

You can read more about Olympic Steel Inc’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Other Metals & Mining - Iron & Steel Stock Grades

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Choosing Which of the 7 Best Metals & Mining - Iron & Steel Stocks Is Right for You

Choosing which value stocks to invest in will ultimately depend on your individual goals and allocation; however, comparing similar value stocks in the same industry can help you analyze which might be better investments for you in the long run. So, let’s take a look at the Value Grade for all of our stocks.

• Algoma Steel Group Inc stock has a Value Grade of A.
• Cleveland-Cliffs Inc stock has a Value Grade of A.
• Huadi International Group Co., Ltd. stock has a Value Grade of B.
• Reliance Inc stock has a Value Grade of B.
• Steel Dynamics Inc stock has a Value Grade of B.
• United States Steel Corporation stock has a Value Grade of A.
• Olympic Steel Inc stock has a Value Grade of A.

Now that you have a bit more background about each of the 7 undervalued stocks in the Metals & Mining - Iron & Steel industry as well as their overall grades, it’s time for you to conduct additional research to see if these could fit your portfolio needs based on your goals and risk tolerance. AAII can help you figure out both and identify which investments align with what works best for you.

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